Game 13: Rutgers Women's Hoops vs. No. 14/15 Indiana

[Tango Two]

Rutgers women's basketball (11-1, 1-0) hosts its Big Ten opener against No. 14/15 Indiana (11-2, 1-0) on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, Dec. 31 at 3 p.m. at the RAC, airing live on Big Ten Network with Jason Horowitz and Julianne Viani-Braen on the call.

https://scarletknights.com/news/201...game-13-womens-hoops-vs-no-14-15-indiana.aspx

 

[hoquat63]

Horrible shooting first quarter RU down 8-9, shooting 20%

 

[RUfanDNT]

I’ll take it.....

 

[scarletcrew]

Halftime
RU 23
IU 25

 

[hoquat63]

Down 23-25 at half. Shooting better up to 32%, way too many silly turnovers 12 for the half. Aurelian with 13 points 6 rebounds

 

[RUJMM78]

Rutgers needs a point guard that can set up teammates for shots and another scoring threat beside Aurelian.

 

[hoquat63]

Down to 5% on my phone so problem no more updates until end

 

[RUJMM78]

30-28 Indiana .Wallace with four fouls.

 

[nirrad]

AG is getting fouled left and right. She should’ve had at least 3 and 1’s

 

[hoquat63]

36-46 after 3

 

[RUJMM78]

End of third quarter Indians leads 46-36.Horrendous offense.

 

[gigantor1024]

End of third quarter Indians leads 46-36.Horrendous offense.

horrendous officiating per usual. 18 FT attempts to 3 at home. Real balanced

 

[wngarbarini]

We have no offense other than Rella. Indiana has better “team” players than us and better coached. We are not a top 25 team. Playing cupcakes caught up with us. Goodnight

 

[RUDave_01]

Indiana knocking down some tough shots and Rutgers is having a tough day from the field.

It seems like Indiana is getting a lot of whistles to go their way (not that it's the difference).

 

[RocktheRac]

Seen this movie before. Called Ponytails

 

[RocktheRac]

horrendous officiating per usual. 18 FT attempts to 3 at home. Real balanced

Stop it.

 

[hoquat63]

1-14 from 3 doomed RU. 11-11 on ft.
Nice crowd stunt section about 2/3 full

 

[bac2therac]

Is anyone truly surprised. The way this team has played for weeks you could see it coming a mile away. When was the last time they had a crisp performance. Dont be fooled by rallying to beat one of the worst programs in the league

This is the same putrid offense we have seen for years and the team was flat and anemic against a good not dominant Indiana on their home floor..disappointing and we have seen this movie before. You cant just start playing like you care in the last few minutes. It works vs sisters of the poor like Wisconsin where everyone wanted to throw a parade but not against good competition. RU got punked by Indiana today

 

[gigantor1024]

Why am I shocked. Arella gets thrown to the ground all game with almost no foul calls and then gets injured. Surprised? Not at all

 

[RocktheRac]

Time for new blood.

 

[RocktheRac]

Why am I shocked. Arella gets thrown to the ground all game with almost no foul calls and then gets injured. Surprised? Not at all

She was not thrown to the floor. She fell against 2 defenders who stood their ground. Take off those scarlet glasses. Its been the refs fault for 10 years...right.

 

[ScarletDave]

4 and 5 stars but they get to the RAC and magically can’t put the ball in the hoop anymore. Don’t understand

 

[bac2therac]

4 and 5 stars but they get to the RAC and magically can’t put the ball in the hoop anymore. Don’t understand

Why do you think that is

 

[ScarletDave]

Why do you think that is

Because is women’s basketball today it’s all about height. And our 4 and 5 stars are tiny girls compared to say Maryland and the UConn style where every girl seems to be 6’3 and above

 

[#1 RUFan]

Team is 1 dimensional with Arella the only true scorer. Double team her and you shut the offense down. Wallace is big, but flat footed. She got schooled by a freshman. Defense doesn't win games if you can't score. Seemed like a winnable game. I'm tired of saying "Same old Rutgers". I live and die with this university, but we never seem to win the ones that give us credibility.

 

[RUTrack94]

RU is probably a B1G semi-final squad ... was hoping they’d be RUs first B1G champ, but a bad start in conference play so far ... lots of season left though!

 

[bac2therac]

Reality is this team was down 15 to one of the worst programs in the league before eeking out a win. That alone seemed to go unnoticed here

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Is anyone truly surprised. The way this team has played for weeks you could see it coming a mile away. When was the last time they had a crisp performance. Dont be fooled by rallying to beat one of the worst programs in the league

This is the same putrid offense we have seen for years and the team was flat and anemic against a good not dominant Indiana on their home floor..disappointing and we have seen this movie before. You cant just start playing like you care in the last few minutes. It works vs sisters of the poor like Wisconsin where everyone wanted to throw a parade but not against good competition. RU got punked by Indiana today

As someone said earlier - I think you liked the post - the poor preparation schedule caught up to us. The announcers on the TV said it several times. RU played no ranked teams. Indiana played South Carolina, Baylor, Miami and UCLA, going 2-2 against that competition - all better teams than anyone on Rutgers' schedule.

I agreed with posts earlier this season that RU didn't need (or want) a really tough "top" OOC out of conference schedule, and I forbore from really saying just how bad some of the teams we played are:

Of the 7 non power-5 OOC opponents - their record is 27 wins and 50 losses, only Harvard has a winning record, and 5 of the 18 games won by someone other than Harvard are against Non-D1 teams. 2 of the opponents haven't won a D1 game yet, and the next worst is 2-7.

Of the P5 teams we played, the "best win" by any of them was probably Georgia Tech over Georgia. The 4 P5 teams we played (Virginia, GTech, Vandy and LSU) have not demonstrated that they are high quality. They have wins - and against better teams than RU played - but most have very suspicious losses as well. None have established grounds to believe they are necessarily going to have great conference seasons - they may, but it is far from a sure thing.

It is really, really hard to schedule the "right" schedule for your team, especially with unknowns on the RU side, but I really think this year the swing to "easy" went too far. My Arizona Wildcats are likely to face a similar dilemma, FWIW, but every team is different.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Reality is this team was down 15 to one of the worst programs in the league before eeking out a win. That alone seemed to go unnoticed here

Just win has always been my mantra. It was the mediocre performance against a mediocre LSU that made me more nervous.

I'm not sure Wisconsin is (necessarily) as bad as you say, but they are not good. Their OOC suggests mid-lower. The probable dreck of the B1G this year is Penn State, not surprisingly. The jury is out on a lot of the other teams. Only 2 had unexpected losses, but only a few had unexpected wins.

 

[MADHAT1]

Rutgers had a bad day , but is 11-2 and more than likely on their way to the Tourney when the regular season ends.
The doom and gloomers can find fault all they want and come up with valid
reasons .

I respect the ones that come on and praise when things go good and criticize when things go bad.
They don't hide after wins, because they are fans that want the RU WBB program to be the best , like they want all RU programs to be.

But the ones that usually only show up after losses, I consider more like a troll than a fan.
Some I think probably enjoy seeing losses so they don't have to hide like they do after a win.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

She was not thrown to the floor. She fell against 2 defenders who stood their ground. Take off those scarlet glasses. Its been the refs fault for 10 years...right.

I watched on TV. It wasn't really well ref'd in my opinion, although it was things not called as opposed to calls. I didn't see any fouls called on Rutgers that were obviously incorrect, but I did think there were some non-calls that could have gone against Indiana (or, in a couple cases, against Rutgers).

I thought the game was very physical, which offends some purists but doesn't really bother me. I did not think the physicality was 1-sided.

 

[Knight Time Fan]

Rutgers had a bad day , but is 11-2 and more than likely on their way to the Tourney when the regular season ends.
The doom and gloomers can find fault all they want and come up with valid
reasons .

I respect the ones that come on and praise when things go good and criticize when things go bad.
They don't hide after wins, because they are fans that want the RU WBB program to be the best , like they want all RU programs to be.

But the ones that usually only show up after losses, I consider more like a troll than a fan.
Some I think probably enjoy seeing losses so they don't have to hide like they do after a win.

I think the doom and gloom posters are a bit over-the-top.

I did want to bring some clarity to the issue raised repetitively by the announcer(s) on TV about the schedule. As I note, Arizona where I am physically played one of the bottom 50 schedules because, at the time it was put together, it was what the coach thought would be best. I'm sure the same applies to Rutgers' schedule. The down-side to all of that, however, is that it does not necessarily prepare you for close games or expose the weaknesses your team has that are exposed when you are playing more talented teams.

What I expected from this game was to get a measuring stick on where RU is at. They are "ok", they are not going to challenge the best of the B1G without some "growth" as a team, but they do have some glaring weaknesses, one of them being the ability to bring multiple scoring threats "on" at the same time.

 

[RU-Choppin-Ohio]

Rutgers had a bad day , but is 11-2 and more than likely on their way to the Tourney when the regular season ends.
The doom and gloomers can find fault all they want and come up with valid
reasons .

I respect the ones that come on and praise when things go good and criticize when things go bad.
They don't hide after wins, because they are fans that want the RU WBB program to be the best , like they want all RU programs to be.

But the ones that usually only show up after losses, I consider more like a troll than a fan.
Some I think probably enjoy seeing losses so they don't have to hide like they do after a win.

The same two ringleaders as always....bac2therac and rocktherac.

 

[RUich]

I agree with the woman commentator's comments.
You cannot expect to win with just good D and one scorer.

 

[ru66]

horrendous officiating per usual. 18 FT attempts to 3 at home. Real balanced

they were terrible as were those tv commentators

 

[bac2therac]

The same two ringleaders as always....bac2therac and rocktherac.

ive been on this board for years and I have been giving congrats after most wins this year, what have you been doing

 

[APKnight]

Vivian just sat there the whole game. I assume displeased with the execution. Coach Eatman said after the game something to the effect of high achievers like CVS don’t waste their time on mediocrity. Maybe a message was being sent to the team.

 

[scarletcrew]

I was at the game and I don't think the team is bad. They only made one 3 pointer and IU made 5 of them I think. IU played good defense too so that lead to some turnovers.
It seems silly to think that they can't get better.

 

[MADHAT1]

ive been on this board for years and I have been giving congrats after most wins this year, what have you been doing

bac2therac drives me batty with his critiques after losses , but also puts a smile on my face when he gives praise over a win.
Whether it's the MBB board or WBB board, he'll have you thinking the program is doomed after a loss , then after a win his praise can have you thinking : a National Championship is not out of the question if the team keeps on playing like they did this game :eek:

This statement I made with posters like bac in mind:
"I respect the ones that come on and praise when things go good and criticize when things go bad.
They don't hide after wins, because they are fans that want the RU WBB program to be the best , like they want all RU programs to be."

 

[bac2therac]

As someone said earlier - I think you liked the post - the poor preparation schedule caught up to us. The announcers on the TV said it several times. RU played no ranked teams. Indiana played South Carolina, Baylor, Miami and UCLA, going 2-2 against that competition - all better teams than anyone on Rutgers' schedule.

I agreed with posts earlier this season that RU didn't need (or want) a really tough "top" OOC out of conference schedule, and I forbore from really saying just how bad some of the teams we played are:

Of the 7 non power-5 OOC opponents - their record is 27 wins and 50 losses, only Harvard has a winning record, and 5 of the 18 games won by someone other than Harvard are against Non-D1 teams. 2 of the opponents haven't won a D1 game yet, and the next worst is 2-7.

Of the P5 teams we played, the "best win" by any of them was probably Georgia Tech over Georgia. The 4 P5 teams we played (Virginia, GTech, Vandy and LSU) have not demonstrated that they are high quality. They have wins - and against better teams than RU played - but most have very suspicious losses as well. None have established grounds to believe they are necessarily going to have great conference seasons - they may, but it is far from a sure thing.

It is really, really hard to schedule the "right" schedule for your team, especially with unknowns on the RU side, but I really think this year the swing to "easy" went too far. My Arizona Wildcats are likely to face a similar dilemma, FWIW, but every team is different.

this wins were okay..they were name programs but alot of them followed the same routine....pretty poor offensive showing and team grinded it out late with defense, LSU was like that but just went the other way. What concerned me was some really shaky performances against lesser opponents at the RAC in Decembers, programs where RU should be fine tuning their offense. Whats clear is there really is no major change in the offense over previous seasons...so yeah I think Ive seen this movie before. RU will perhaps or perhaps not do enough to get into the NCAA tourney but dont seem to be a real threat to do much like last season.

RU had I think two chances down just 5 to really make this a game but Sanders seemed to be doing too much and no one was rebounding. I also think Davenport is underperforming given her ranking..yes I know she is a freshmen, but freshmen around the country with her hype come in right away and start dominating, I just think with CVS system we seem to waste so much potential. Ditto for Giles and Zippy...she was the #24 recruit. If we are going to praise CVS signing top 50 recruits then they better be delivering. I think there is underperformance across the board